I'd like to see some swimming and some cycling too but they're likely to be ridiculously oversubscribed. Again, tempted to spend mad bunse on getting the best seats for stuff, although I don't really mind what I see in the big stadium as long as I get something.

One of the boxing QFs
One of the track cycling finals (possibly mens team pursuit)
One athletics day (not bothered which really)
One diving day (probs 10m springboard)
One swimming day (not sure yet - possibly Smiley Miley's day)
One of the two-football-game early round extravaganzas, maybe in Cov.

None of us are sports fans. None of them have ever been to a sporting event in their lives. They're all talking about going to as many events as possible for the atmosphere and the experience - I just think they're taking away tickets from actual sports fans like you. So I refuse to be sucked into it. And I think you should appreciate the sacrifice I'm making on your behalf. Go on. Say thank you.

Several events are on the streets of London and therefore free, eg. marathon and some cycling events.

One of our clients is a sponsor and they were telling me that they were offered the chance to block buy huge areas of seats a few months back. Between them and the local MPs I wonder how many actual seats will be on sale to the general public?

I ought to apply for the tennis really as I live about 10 minutes walk from Wimbledon Tennis Club...

you've already added ... Would make life easier when you're considering lots of things. I'm right in thinking I don't have to submit my application until late April and the events I've currently added will be saved to my profile, right?

But can I check I've understood the procedure correctly?
We have to apply for a bunch of stuff, and whatever we get allocated in the ballot we have to buy?
So everyone will either go bankrupt buying a shitload of tickets for stuff they were vaguely interested in, or just get left with nothing at all? Cool.

I'll probably want to buy two tickets for most of the things I want to see, as it's always nice to be with someone else, but then I have to pay for 2x everything I want to do at once as I don't know who'll be up for going with me for some of these things, meaning that I will be MASSIVELY SKINT to start off with, until I find an accompanying friend who can pay me straight away for most of these things.

I would to see track cycling. My buddy was an Olympic cyclist when we were kids; it's great. (Though it was better back then because they were all completely drugged up. They'd take the raddest spills ever, bloody themselves up good, and get right back up and ride again. I've never seen anything like it outside a rugby match.)

I was told by him there is a twenty event maximum application. This complicated things somewhat. Fencing had to go. I better get lucky with the Archery though. Really want to go but could only fit in one session.

I know it's a once in a lifetime event but all the sports I would probably be interested in are - from what I can quickly ascertain - ridiculously expensive. I genuinely think I'd rather watch bits of it on telly and go watch a full day of cricket, the mighty Blues or something else entirely. I can count most of the events at the Olympics barring field events that I like on one hand, and most of them are just poorer versions of events that have better tournaments outside of the Games such as tennis and football.

I am going to try to get tickets for the cycling later on though. What else would be good?

i've applied for a session that's two matches for £20. at wembley! that's barely more expensive than going to see hendon. that's a bargain, even if it is poorer than the world cup. after all, we all know with football that quality =/= entertainment.

i think* there are £20 tickets for pretty much every sport. but you know, if you don't want to, all the more for us

Football (a prelim round and the final), Tennis (prelim round) and Basketball (prelim round). Would have chucked in some boxing and something more Olympics-y had I not had a season ticket to renew and a trip coming up in a few weeks. Hoping that the girlfriend or other friends have some success with their applications and I can get to see some other stuff with them.

On holiday so only woke up an hour ago, with a message I left on my phone last night to make sure to do the tickets. I couldn't get access to my account either with their stupid questions - WHO IS YOUR FAVOURITE SPORTSMAN? God knows. Failed to get access with a couple of different spellings of Bruce Grobbelaar, got angry. To be fair, probably put something stupid like Dwayne Leverock back in those days when I wasn't under immense time pressures.

I also thought you could go back and add stuff to your application once it was submitted, so I just frantically added some stuff and stuffed it into the letterbox [metaphorically] before the whole site inevitably crashes this evening, but apparently you can't alter it. Which means I'm probably going to get nothing since I pretty much ran the board of the prime events, at the cheapest prices - I'll take one opening ceremony seat please, and one for the 100m, I'll be paying 40 quid for the both....no, no need to wrap it.

but I think I like the idea of the opening ceremony. All those flash bulbs in a darkened stadium. Problem is I've probably only ever encountered it by walking in and out of a room at the interesting bits - being there for 5 hours might end up being more excruciating than even Bruce Springsteen at Glastonbury 2009.

If I get all of these I'm going to be Mr Olympics, but in all likelihood the only thing I'm getting is the beach volleyball and being Mr. Perv. If that happens I'm going to have to purchase some shitty preliminary badminton and wrestling tickets on the second ballot like when you only need to buy toilet paper from the shop but get a bottle of milk and a Twix to make it look less damning to the onlooker.

Wanted more, but didn't dare risk it as I had to put them on my credit card because of the whole We suck Visa's dick thing. A credit card I was going to cancel cos they're jacking my interested rate up form 20% to 25% FUCK YOU OLYMPICS

I don't mean it, I love you. I'm sure there'll be a fuck ton of spares floating around

Please ensure you have sufficient funds available on your Visa card to cover the total cost of your application between 10 May and 10 June 2011. Please be aware that your application may be withdrawn if you do not have sufficient funds available.

The latest date by which you will be told whether you have been allocated tickets is 24 June 2011.

but i got an email today saying, 'congratulations. you have recieved some or all of the tickets you applied for.'. but it didnt tell me which one. so the money goes out last month, then i get an email 2 weeks later telling me, 'yes, the money will have come out' and then in 2 more weeks i will find out what i actually have.

Wound up with a men's football QF at Wembley (category B) and some fencing semi-finals/medal matches (category C) - not too bad really. Might see if there's anything left when they open up applications from successful applicanets next month.

FIRST we get dicked around like this and come out with a small number of tickets to obscure events. THEN because we are SO PRIVILEGED TO GET THESE PRE-PRELIMINARY DOG DANCING TICKETS (GRIMSBY SEAFRONT TEMPORARY STADIUM), we are BANNED from scraping around in the bins like savages trying to get some FUCKING PING PONG TICKETS?

It's actually amazing how uninspiring the smaller event tickets look when they're not grouped together with the ones you actually really wanted. It's like just getting the side salad for your main meal. Thanks, BUT WHERE'S MY FUCKING LASAGNE.

It makes me even more fired up to scrounge my way to some athletics tickets in the "special" round Friday morning. I'm going to come on here and give it the big one like you've never seen if I get something good - it'll make Abebayor's 90m run to celebrate in front of the Arsenal fans look like the height of restraint

On there for 6am, chose tickets in 90 seconds, got right through to the credit card security question and then it crashed. Could not get a single page to work for half an hour.

Just logged back in to try again and it says I've already applied, but haven't had any email confirmation, so no idea whether it's gone through or not.

What a mess. It'd be much more British to replace this bravado of 'we know exactly how much demand there will be, the website definitely, definitely won't crash' with a cheery 'we'll probably mess it up, so just bear with us and in the meantime here are some hilarious videos featuring Wallace and Gromit and Prince Philip being racist'.

Set my alarm for 5.45am, then spent the night fitfully sleeping and waking up because my body clock never reacts well to knowing that it has to awake early for something, gets to 5.55am and try and log on and forget my favourite sportsman AGAIN so can't log in until 6.05am when I eventually stumble upon the answer, select what I want and get to the very final page of payment and...the site crashes.

Spend 15 mins robotically pressing refresh until it reveals that my application has been received, but no confirmation email arrives. Try to go back to sleep but can't nod off because of the mix of murderous rage at Lord Coe and the utter humiliation of having lost a night's sleep in a pathetic attempt to gain preliminary handball tickets - I don't even know what handball is. What has become of me?
I am the Wile E Coyote of Olympic tickets.

Volleyball, beach volleyball (x2), weightlifting, 9am athletics preliminaries (x2), Belarus v NZ under-23 football will all be graced by my presence. I could do a Scrooge McDuck dive into my enormous pile of tickets.

To be honest, I'm trying to flog most of them - I got too caught up in it and don't really want to take a day off work to watch bollocks like volleyball. I've been goosed by Sebastian Coe, and not for the first time

I've now got the day passes as well as the archery but I'm worried becasue I just realised my account still has the address details of where I was living last year. I've updated it now, but after the purchase was confirmed - not sure if it's too late.

You get a huge string of dates & sessions, listing the available prices. You slowly click into them, one at a time, and find that none of those prices are available after all. If you do happen to find some, you add them to your basket. You then 'request' the tickets, which means sitting in a queue for ages, then getting told they're not available after all.
I give up.
MOAN MOAN MOAN

While it's a bit of a faff to find what's available, there are still tickets left - I just got a ticket for the men's handball semi final. The site is a lot less busy today than yesterday, there are no queues at all at the moment.

Also, don't forget that day passes for the Olympic Park are now on sale (£10) if you want to be able to go in and sit on the grass and watch the big screens.

Includings sports that were sold out before - athletics, swimming etc. I just got a ticket to one of the athletics prelims sessions which includes the men's 100m and some of the women's heptathalon, quite pleased. Hurry, though, they'll go fast!